Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 07:12:15 pm
You awaken, as usual, at what appears to be a room in the town of Flom. Of course, it is not; that was just an impressive illusion converted to fit whoever lived in the room. You're at the Academis Primus, in Quarlx, center of of the Zionic lands. Only two kinds of students end up here: The great mages-in-training, the too-talented students of everywhere else of importance (Reyk Figarans excluded), and those who had caused...impropriety in magic, to be polite.
More directly, they'd been caught being unacceptably rogue (or something else that drew too much bad attention) and were here to be knocked upside the head (figuratively) before being allowed to continue anything. Only way to tell them apart really was asking specific questions to specific psionics students, otherwise they acted more or less alike.
A few years ago they said you could tell them apart easily: you either had a ridiculously pointy hat, or you didn't. But the reason for that changing, aside from the official answer ("It is simply just a consequence related to the reason Reyk Figarans are disallowed, feel free to wear whatever headgear you wish as long as it does not involve enraged cauterized decapitation of fellow students. If a second case of that EVER happens here again, you will be disintegrated with extreme prejudice, and your parents/guardians notified of your de-existence.") was hidden, and hopefully you are part of the former group and not the latter. Being stuck near the experimental rooms as someone with not much interest in that area was problematic to your thoughts in general, and your memory specifically. Sometimes you'd wake up and not remember what your name was but could narrate the entirety of the most recent play to have been performed nearby.
...damnit. Today was one of those days. But it was at least a play you'd heard of before this time.
Pick two magic schools from below, and then the following for our character (magics will be by majority):
Name:
General appearance:
Name of the play (optional):
Other (optional):
Magics:
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Post by: Twi on July 10, 2013, 07:18:54 pm
General Appearance: Tall, gangly lady with a grey duster and goggles (and also other clothes). Is missing two fingers. May or may not be blue haired, depending on the time of day and the amount of oil she's been exposed to today.
Name of the play: The Dolls of New Albion
Other: Counts in base 8. Has really weird hair problems. Probably likes coffee.
Magics:
Magitechnica
Alchemy
Post by: Parsely on July 10, 2013, 07:26:06 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 07:27:28 pm
Post by: Parsely on July 10, 2013, 07:29:36 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 07:33:13 pm
Appearance: A tall woman who could easily be mistaken for a man.
Play: The Ending Game
Other: An aggressive female wizard who was magically checked to make sure she was actually a girl. Needless to say, this didn't help matters. She has an excellent tactical mind and is quite accurate with ranged weapons.
Magics: Magitechnica, Pyromancy
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 07:35:42 pm
Oh my, I didn't realise it was a suggestion game!What did you think it was, out of curiousity?
Post by: Parsely on July 10, 2013, 07:39:42 pm
General appearance: A very lean man of average height, with curly brown locks that nearly reach his shoulders. Is actually quite handsome, for a mage, and though he keeps a beard its generally only stubble on his chin and cheeks. If he's clean shaven its only because a stray flame torched a patch of it.
Magics: Pyromancy, Cryomancy
Other (optional): Low alcohol tolerance. Tends to black out should he have even a sip. Despises adventures and would do his utmost to avoid them.
Post by: Parsely on July 10, 2013, 07:41:56 pm
A low-capacity RPG. Dunno what I was thinking. Now that I've looked through the thing I don't know how I could've missed all those hints. I need a damned coffee..Oh my, I didn't realise it was a suggestion game!What did you think it was, out of curiousity?
Post by: Furtuka on July 10, 2013, 08:21:08 pm
Name: Nikolas Hocks
General appearance: A very lean man of average height, with curly brown locks that nearly reach his shoulders. Is actually quite handsome, for a mage, and though he keeps a beard its generally only stubble on his chin and cheeks. If he's clean shaven its only because a stray flame torched a patch of it.
Magics: Pyromancy, Cryomancy
Other (optional): Low alcohol tolerance. Tends to black out should he have even a sip. Despises adventures and would do his utmost to avoid them.
Vote for this, but with the Cryomancy swapped for alchemy.
Post by: Cheesecake on July 10, 2013, 08:21:50 pm
Appearance: A homeboy
Other: He raps his spells instead of just saying them.
Magics:
Magitechnia
Psionics
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 08:25:55 pm
Post by: Ross Vernal on July 10, 2013, 08:26:27 pm
No other votes, just those for magics.
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 08:31:25 pm
Post by: Twi on July 10, 2013, 08:32:27 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 08:33:30 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 08:33:54 pm
So, unless we get an interest otherwise I'm gonig to make it between Petra and Nikolas in a few minutes.
Post by: Twi on July 10, 2013, 08:34:59 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 09:17:47 pm
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There you go, that was it. You are Petra Arcane, though for some reason you also woke up with blue-ish hair.
The question now is, what do you do? Its a bit early to start anything here at the academy, besides just wander around or go do something in Quarlx instead. Everything except clothing seems to be intact though, including the bed, and the door. Normally the clothing would be a problem, but this is the middle of the Academis Primus, there have been far weirder sights than simply a naked student walking about, to the point where you doubt anyone would notice until you entered the city proper.
In the meantime, the illusion floats back into the ceiling, and you see your room as it normally is: Blasting rod off to the side of your bed, tactically placed furniture to ensure inattentive people trip as much as possible, and a fairly decent shade of orange intersliced with the navy blue of the magitech department on the wall to represent your favored fields of magic. Closet hidden in the wall next to you, clothes drawer in its position mid-room.
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Post by: Twi on July 10, 2013, 09:21:58 pm
Also, check the drawer. Surely there are some clothes in there. :
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 09:24:47 pm
((On a side note, anyone care to guess why I made the character how I did?))
Grab the Blasting Rod, get dressed.
Post by: Furtuka on July 10, 2013, 09:31:07 pm
((I wasn't worried overmuch about the hair. Really, the name, aggression, and talents were all that mattered to me.))
((On a side note, anyone care to guess why I made the character how I did?))
Grab the Blasting Rod, get dressed.
*Raises hand*
The Name of the Play bit was what made it click.
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 09:39:18 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 09:41:03 pm
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Knocking the drawer open with your blasting rod, you find...pants. All of your drawers have turned into pants aside from one. You collect what you can and after a through inspection, find the dregs of a poorly mixed potion in the bottom of what was supposed to be the sock drawer.
Time to wake up a certain prankster alchemist then. But considering they're rather far off in the building, you could probably take a couple side trips on the way there and still get there before they wake up.
((Take your average fancy collage and add a strong dose of wizard. That should describe where we can go well enough.))
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Post by: Twi on July 10, 2013, 09:44:59 pm
*or dieselpunk, but obvious thematics are obvious.
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 09:46:22 pm
Next question: What do Shoes of Minor Magic do?
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Inspect pants and potion to determine whose they could be.
...Also determine if we have a roommate.
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 09:50:01 pm
We do not have a roommate. There are enough fights as it is without the potential for more caused by haphazardly combining wizards of possible polar opposites together in one room.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 10, 2013, 09:50:36 pm
Knocking the drawer open with your blasting rod, you find...pants. All of your drawers have turned into pants aside from one.Pants! Hurray!
We do not have a roommate. There are enough fights as it is without the potential for more caused by haphazardly combining wizards of possible polar opposites together in one room.Plus of course, giving roommates might put wizard apprentices in the bad habit of not being solitary.
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 09:55:33 pm
Gathering up the potion remains, you think you have them all when they burst into flames, and quickly are simply more dust in the room.
Now what?
Post by: Twi on July 10, 2013, 09:58:23 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 09:59:14 pm
Let's go improve that mechastaff while we have the time! We'll need to whack our 'friend' with it, after all. Or magic at them, either one. We are an ANGRY WIZARD. >:C
Ok. :)
Any other actions?
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 10:00:50 pm
Also contemplate breakfast. And try to imagine where someone who would have stolen all of our clothes and replaced them with pants might have gone.
Post by: Twi on July 10, 2013, 10:06:56 pm
Remember what our schedule is today. Do we have classes or something?
Also contemplate breakfast. And try to imagine where someone who would have stolen all of our clothes and replaced them with pants might have gone.
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 10:08:50 pm
Today is Sunday. Technically we could go walk into an alchemy class if we were suddenly interested in one, but considering this morning, that wouldn't end well for someone. It would most likely end favorably (possibly funnily) for us depending on whos there, but otherwise no, theres nothing important to do other than smacking a certain someone.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 10, 2013, 10:09:44 pm
Let's go improve that mechastaff while we have the time! We'll need to whack our 'friend' with it, after all. Or magic at them, either one. We are an ANGRY WIZARD. >:C
They give us pants, we give them pain.
Truly, we are the cruelest of wizards.
Post by: Twi on July 10, 2013, 10:11:45 pm
Then get to smacking. :3
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 10:14:04 pm
Consider breakfast options as we don a pair of pants from whichever drawer held the highest concentration of lower-body-wear before it was all turned into pants.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 10, 2013, 10:30:40 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 10:32:16 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 10:38:40 pm
...The door is locked. But considering its just a mechanical lock and not anything fancy, with a good shove and a bit of magic-imbued force, you reassemble the lock internals open and thwack him on the head. The force of the blow both knocks him out of bed (and awake), and triggers the light on. He rubs his eyes, grabs a bottle on the end table of his and tosses the contents at you, which causes your clothes to dissolve and you to pound him with your blasting rod instead.
"Heh, I s-see you f-found me a-already, P-petra. Still looking g-good, I see..." he says as he collapses on the floor grinning.
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Post by: Harbingerjm on July 10, 2013, 10:44:39 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 10:46:22 pm
Post by: Furtuka on July 10, 2013, 10:48:09 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 10:51:05 pm
Kick him hard enough his kids feel it. By which I mean, groin attack.
Post by: Aklyon on July 10, 2013, 10:53:03 pm
You also thwack him in the head again since something in your head is particularly angry and you can't be bothered to flip him over.
Post by: Furtuka on July 10, 2013, 10:55:49 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 10, 2013, 10:56:38 pm
...we should have stolen his clothes.They probably wouldn't have fit.
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Go find a friend and borrow some of their clothes, and then enlist them in dragging the guy to someplace where you can do something exceedingly embarrassing to him.Sounds like as good a plan as any.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 10, 2013, 10:57:25 pm
They probably wouldn't have fit.Better than nothing. So long as they're too big rather than too small.
Also, plant our magical shoe in his arse.
Post by: Twi on July 10, 2013, 11:05:31 pm
But first, gratuitous whacking is in order.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 11, 2013, 05:13:52 am
HE WILL PAY FOR OUR CLOTHES! With his own! And also the nearest cryomancer. ;3But I thought we were female?
But first, gratuitous whacking is in order.
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 05:45:31 am
I didn't say we were going to put them on. ALthouhg if he has robes, those are pretty unisex.HE WILL PAY FOR OUR CLOTHES! With his own! And also the nearest cryomancer. ;3But I thought we were female?
But first, gratuitous whacking is in order.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 11, 2013, 06:12:35 am
I didn't say we were going to put them on. ALthouhg if he has robes, those are pretty unisex.Well, first off robes are great, wizard up. Second off, that wasn't an argument against stealing his clothes, pants are pants are pants.
But first, gratuitous whacking is in order.But I thought we were female?
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 06:17:16 am
Ohs. Ohmai.But first, gratuitousBut I thought we were female?whackingstickbashing is in order.
Sorry, no, not that kind of whacking. The painful kind.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 11, 2013, 06:20:32 am
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 08:51:11 am
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Checking in his closet, you find nothing in particular besides a cloak. You put the cloak on, smack him again, and walk out to go do other things. It'd be a bit more dangerous than usual to continue working on the Mechastaff right now, but unless the instructor is in there to insist on safety gear theres technically nothing stopping you from doing that. Or you could go find someone to help drag him out of the room with. Or go eat. Theres more to do than you'd thought, actually.
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 08:56:50 am
If we can transmute this jerk, whose name we don't know yet, turn him into something small and embarrassing, such as a lilliputian or a rabbit, and take him to the common areas before releasing him.
If not, take him to, oh...let's say the bedroom of someone else we don't like.
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 08:58:28 am
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 09:22:41 am
Seriously, though, let's grab some grub and also stick Dron somewhere humiliating.
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 10:33:37 am
More important is finishing the staff, which you start by removing the light. The cloak gets singed instead of you while you were rewiring it to have a rotating gear at the top instead of the light, but theres not enough decent scrap remaining to fill out the staff. So for now, its a wand instead.
What to do now though? You've sorted out almost everything there really is to do this morning as far as the academy goes.
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 12:31:35 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 12:33:56 pm
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 12:39:35 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 12:54:59 pm
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 01:02:24 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 01:20:44 pm
Nearby locations in town:
Shops
Sparkling Gem, the tavern/jewelry store
Assorted trash recepticles
Houses
Back Alleys
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Post by: Furtuka on July 11, 2013, 01:30:25 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 01:36:45 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 02:13:01 pm
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 02:24:18 pm
Let's go shopping or something instead. Also find some stuff to alchemize, WIZARD style. (hint hint.)
Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 02:31:11 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 02:32:51 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 02:41:14 pm
How old are we again?Adult of some kind, this never really came up before. ???
You leave there and go into one of the alleys. As you walk down one of them, you find:
A cat
A couple lizards
A mauve plant
Some dead grass
A partially-eaten apple
And some broken masonry.
Except for the cat, you could fit all of them individually into the bucket, or the majority of them (again sans cat) in it at once. You would need to get a bigger bucket to fit the cat in.
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 02:42:56 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 02:44:38 pm
Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 02:46:25 pm
We must alchemize lizards with masonry. This is clearly a good idea. :3Stone lizards.
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 02:52:57 pm
Are best lizards.We must alchemize lizards with masonry. This is clearly a good idea. :3Stone lizards.
Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 02:57:37 pm
Which is why we need to make one! Really, really bad! D:Are best lizards.We must alchemize lizards with masonry. This is clearly a good idea. :3Stone lizards.
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 02:58:32 pm
Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 03:10:45 pm
Gut lizard.
Pour lizard guts onto masonry.
???
Profit!
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 03:13:39 pm
LA LA LA I'M NOT LISTENIIIIING LALALAAAA!!!
Gut lizard.
Pour lizard guts onto masonry.
???
Profit!
Nuuu D:
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 03:13:50 pm
First off, you gather up the broken bits of stone and the lizards into the bucket, and then concentrate on what is probably alchemical magic while pointing at the bucket
The lizards explode into rocks, which strike you in the nose and chest. Cuts that bled for a moment and a broken nose aside, it was a success: You turned the lizards into stone lizards. They didn't remain intact for all of 2 seconds, but they were stone. And also really painful to get hit by.
You then try to combine the partially-eaten apple and the dead grass together, which is only slightly more successful, giving you a mushy apple-colored substance that smells like grass sitting in the bucket water that wriggles. You aren't quite sure if that should really count as a success or not, but you dump it into a flask anyway, someone can tell you what it is later.
That finished, you pick the mauve plant, and leave. The cat follows you until you leave the alley.
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 03:15:11 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 03:16:57 pm
Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 03:20:55 pm
+1 to getting more lizards.
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 03:25:50 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 03:43:46 pm
Close by: Someone's bucket of iron bars
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Post by: Furtuka on July 11, 2013, 03:58:03 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 04:02:13 pm
Post by: Eotyrannus on July 11, 2013, 04:08:05 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 04:09:24 pm
Post by: Carnwennan on July 11, 2013, 04:17:59 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 04:33:57 pm
Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 04:34:03 pm
Jog toward the Academy.
EDIT: Ninja
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 04:39:00 pm
Your nose continues to hurt however.
Location: Near the academy, Moving west through the city of Quarlx
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 04:40:54 pm
Keep an eye out for familiar students and wonder if there are any teachers we could show our impromptu discovery to.
Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 04:44:35 pm
Post by: Carnwennan on July 11, 2013, 04:45:32 pm
Keep an eye out for familiar students and wonder if there are any teachers we could show our impromptu discovery to.Discovery? What, the wriggliness?
Pour a little of the wriggliness juice onto one of the lizard statues
It's an academy, right? Surely, people get into accidents all the time, is there an infirmary we can visit to fix our nose?
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 04:57:06 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 04:58:08 pm
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You decide to go to the infirmary while dipping one of the statues in the Wiggliness. The statue is now wiggling, similar to the inside of that flask.
The nurse takes a look at you, rights your nose, and promptly goes back to tending to worse injuries, like the one on one of the beds that is part sheep for some reason, so you leave to show someone your statues. A few minutes later you've found one of the alchemy teachers who can't be bothered to pay for them, but does (after arguing it off you) give you a notable bag of gold for the essense of wiggliness instead. He also tells you that it is a useless mush without that wiggliness and dumps it into the trash before returning you the flask. You fill up the bucket and leave with the gold.
Location: a bench at the academy
Time: noonish.
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 05:00:27 pm
Put the wriggling lizard statue in our room as a paperweight.
Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 05:06:17 pm
Perhaps we should try combining different fruits with dry grass? Or different kinds of grass with apples?
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 05:22:52 pm
...We need a better name for that. Kinetic Oscillation Essence?
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 05:23:22 pm
A wiggly paperweight!
Perhaps we should try combining different fruits with dry grass? Or different kinds of grass with apples?
This, and this.
Also, wiiiiggle. :3
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 05:23:51 pm
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Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 05:25:19 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 05:25:59 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 05:26:32 pm
What happened to finding apples and grass so we could make wiggles?I was wondering the same.
Feel the orb. Is it solid, squishy, gaseous?
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 05:27:11 pm
Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 05:27:54 pm
Then go get some apples and dried grass and combine them again to see if we get the same result (unrefined wiggles).
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 05:36:31 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 05:37:32 pm
Locate an area of dead grass.
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 05:57:58 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 11, 2013, 06:01:11 pm
Science!
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 06:05:39 pm
You don't see any really dead grass nearby. Theres some frogs though.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 11, 2013, 06:18:32 pm
Oh well. Seek Magitechnician loot.
Gotta fix that staff, and who knows, some of it might be useable for alchemy.
Post by: Twi on July 11, 2013, 06:26:28 pm
Wait, we didn't adopt the cat? What kind of wizard are we!
Oh well. Seek Magitechnician loot.
Gotta fix that staff, and who knows, some of it might be useable for alchemy.
Post by: Carnwennan on July 11, 2013, 08:51:32 pm
+1. Also, fireball some frogs to use as alchemic reagents later.Wait, we didn't adopt the cat? What kind of wizard are we!
Oh well. Seek Magitechnician loot.
Gotta fix that staff, and who knows, some of it might be useable for alchemy.
Post by: Aklyon on July 11, 2013, 09:41:41 pm
You fry her ass and collect the (only slightly melted) metal scrap she probably tore off a building. It seems to be mostly copper, which isn't exactly what you were looking for for your staff. You then drag her into a corner and debate whether or not to use the dead looter as alchemy reagents, before deciding you don't really want to cut up another person, even though it wouldn't exactly be difficult to conjure up a flame blade. But its a possibility, if gruesome.
Moving further into town, you find a goblin looking suspicious at a bunch of frogs and stab them in the fire. Or was it with the fire, there was quite a bit of it and you're slightly overheated from it all...
Either way, you turn in the goblin to the city guard and receive the minor reward for helping keep the city free of thieves: a handful of gold. The cooked frogs you keep for your own purposes.
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Post by: Parsely on July 11, 2013, 11:58:04 pm
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 12, 2013, 04:39:29 am
and debate whether or not to use the dead looter as alchemy reagents, before deciding you don't really want to cut up another person, even though it wouldn't exactly be difficult to conjure up a flame blade. But its a possibility, if gruesome.Make a note to be less of a wuss in the future. Also, we need to acquire more pants.
Post by: Parsely on July 12, 2013, 04:40:22 am
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 12, 2013, 06:59:53 am
We're already probably a criminal, we don't need to become one of those terrifying serial killers they send in the big guns to find and take down.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 12, 2013, 07:22:02 am
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 12, 2013, 07:31:14 am
Unless we take the whole body with us, there's still bits for them to find, and if we do we're taking a corpse to the school, which is pretty suspicious.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 12, 2013, 07:36:04 am
Goblins and looters are not the same thing.
if the bounty the guard gave us for killing the goblin as a thief
Unless we take the whole body with us, there's still bits for them to find, and if we do we're taking a corpse to the school, which is pretty suspicious.a) This is a Wizard school, is it really?
b) We can always turn it into something else, or any bits we leave behind at least.
c) "No, my friend here is totally drunk, and passed out after accidentally lighting themselves on fire, rolling around on the ground in a panic, and banging their head against the wall. See the charred bits of their clothes? Hah, they're never going to live this down! Still, I couldn't just leave them on the street unconcious, they might get shanked, and they owe me money."
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 12, 2013, 07:42:19 am
Missed that.Goblins and looters are not the same thing.if the bounty the guard gave us for killing the goblin as a thief
Much less racist.
Still, no need to get human organs, especially since we don't even know their alchemal properties.
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a. Yes.Unless we take the whole body with us, there's still bits for them to find, and if we do we're taking a corpse to the school, which is pretty suspicious.a) This is a Wizard school, is it really?
b) We can always turn it into something else, or any bits we leave behind at least.
c) "No, my friend here is totally drunk, and passed out after accidentally lighting themselves on fire, rolling around on the ground in a panic, and banging their head against the wall. See the charred bits of their clothes? Hah, they're never going to live this down! Still, I couldn't just leave them on the street unconcious, they might get shanked, and they owe me money."
b. Not quickly.
c. Um...
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 12, 2013, 07:53:31 am
Still, no need to get human organs, especially since we don't even know their alchemal properties.Actually, that's all the more reason to get them. For
a. Yes.We'll see, I guess.
b. Not quickly.We're a Pyromancer. Yes quickly.
Post by: Carnwennan on July 12, 2013, 08:03:18 am
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Post by: Aklyon on July 12, 2013, 10:23:00 am
Find out about any lectures on magic we might be able to attendTheres not any you could join today, the alchemy one finished up. Sunday is rather quiet of academy things.
You combine the copper and the cooked frog and the iron lizard statue, and create a statue of a lizard and a frog in iron and copper. The lizard is standing victorious over the frog. The frog is lying under the lizard. The statue is of average craftsmageship. You then return to where you'd left the looter and see a couple elves making off with it.
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Post by: Carnwennan on July 12, 2013, 12:04:01 pm
No doubt they are going to eat the corpse.
Oh well, go buy some of the parts we need to turn our dead, slightly burnt frogs into undead, still-slightly-burnt magic cyborg familiars.
As in, stick copper gears on one of them and maybe combine it with the purple swirly thing.
Post by: Furtuka on July 12, 2013, 12:06:41 pm
Missed that.Goblins and looters are not the same thing.if the bounty the guard gave us for killing the goblin as a thief
Much less racist.
Still, no need to get human organs, especially since we don't even know their alchemal properties.Quotea. Yes.Unless we take the whole body with us, there's still bits for them to find, and if we do we're taking a corpse to the school, which is pretty suspicious.a) This is a Wizard school, is it really?
b) We can always turn it into something else, or any bits we leave behind at least.
c) "No, my friend here is totally drunk, and passed out after accidentally lighting themselves on fire, rolling around on the ground in a panic, and banging their head against the wall. See the charred bits of their clothes? Hah, they're never going to live this down! Still, I couldn't just leave them on the street unconcious, they might get shanked, and they owe me money."
b. Not quickly.
c. Um...
As a veteran of the first you are wizard I can assure you that sanity is not a common thing in this setting.
Post by: Aklyon on July 12, 2013, 06:40:25 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 12, 2013, 06:46:05 pm
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Post by: Harbingerjm on July 12, 2013, 07:27:43 pm
The kind that runs off with other people's kills, of course. We haven't seen any other details yet.The second worst type of elf!
Post by: Aklyon on July 13, 2013, 09:10:24 am
As you look around, you see that there is actually more metals here now, and start on making undead cyborg frogs. Alive they are not (this might've actually killed them more dead, looking at them), but they are successfully activated as cyborg remote control things. Perhaps this would work better with an AI instead of trying to revive frogs, but if you're going to try to build one of those you might as well have something more interesting than, well, frogs. Burnt ones at that, even.
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Post by: Twi on July 13, 2013, 07:01:52 pm
After all, Sunday is the day of rest, so clearly you should spend it breaking things. :P
Post by: Carnwennan on July 14, 2013, 03:15:38 am
As in, if we wanted to make a ring that acted as a welding torch when we dump magic into it, would we need to learn enchanting, or could we use pyromancy?
We should build a walking, fire-breathing robot lizard contraption that looks awesome and can be used in celebration and/or demonstrating our awesomeness.
After all, Sunday is the day of rest, so clearly you should spend it breaking things. :P
+1 to the robot; start construction at least.
Maybe, in the morning we go to the sunday market and buy a bag of apples (assuming it isn't too expensive)? Then divide time between robot making and refining wriggliness essence. Also, try to find that wizard we sold the wriggliness to last time and ask them what they were using it for.
Post by: Parsely on July 14, 2013, 03:16:51 am
Post by: Aklyon on July 14, 2013, 08:45:54 am
So, how do enchantments work in this? Dothey operate off of an 'Enchantment' skill, or do they operate off of the magic skill the spell would nomally use when evocated?Enchantments are based off of one of two things:
As in, if we wanted to make a ring that acted as a welding torch when we dump magic into it, would we need to learn enchanting, or could we use pyromancy?
1. The most relevant magic skill (So you could make a welding ring via pyromancy, yes)
2. Metamagery (for things that don't fit any skills we know. This is the more difficult way.)
Update in a couple minutes.
Post by: Twi on July 14, 2013, 08:53:35 am
+1 to robutts, but is it going to be more of a living construct, like a golem, or an actual robutt?Actual robutt. Doesn't have to be smart, just do the cool stuff. Also fuck practicality, we're experimenting. :3
Post by: Aklyon on July 14, 2013, 10:05:03 am
Then you get an idea for a giant walking firebreathing lizard...robutt? Maybe you've been outside too much today, that last part doesn't make any sense. But theres plenty of scrap and it would be entertaining anyway.
First, you grab a lizard and remove its arse. You leave the rest of the lizard to cook while you start building the Walking Fire Lizard Robutt, starting with the butt before the lizard butt gets ruined. Its not the best, but its mechanized somewhat. The rest of that area is fairly simple until you get to the legs. The legs are a failure, in almost any sense of the word. You bring out your flame blade and get to work rearranging the wreckage into wheels instead, with reasonable success. Though now that you have it out, there was a few rough edges in need of smoothing out before you move on, so you melt them into smoothness and move on while its cooling off.
Next is the Flame breathing apparatus. You go and quickly check your pyromancy book for something that would help while its cooling, and then open your closet looking for the materials. You only find the red feathers (which are a poor substitute for what you're supposed to use for a pyroagent, but were cheaper and enough fire will get it to work anyway), but a large amount of heat later (and a large bucket of water so you don't just melt your construct while adding them, though you were thirsty anyway), you have several pyroagents. You adjust the robutt so it can open and close and then add the fire breathing contraption to the inside of it more or less securely. You dump the pyroagents inside except for one, drop that one into the ignition, and hope it doesn't just explode instead of starting up.
For lack of a better term, the 'glorious' 3-feet tall, 3-feet wide robotic flaming butt starts up. The doorway is undamaged by the test fire though; theres been far worst attacks than that on it. You walk it outside and attach a note since it won't fit in your room.
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Ridiculous or not, the Fire-breather Robutt is built and owned by Petra Arcane. Steal at your own peril.
...Later on, theres another note attached to it:
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Terrible. Mechanically impressive. Appraise you above average now.
-Zinqu, Magitechnicia Dept.
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 14, 2013, 10:21:43 am
Post by: Aklyon on July 14, 2013, 10:27:32 am
Why are we insane?Can you be more specific? We haven't done anything in particular that would be called insane for a wizard academy.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 14, 2013, 10:43:05 am
Why are we insane?Petra or Bay12?
Post by: Carnwennan on July 14, 2013, 12:32:11 pm
Enchantments are based off of one of two things:Ah, something like what I was hoping.... I am assuming all the magics listed won't be the only magics available?
1. The most relevant magic skill (So you could make a welding ring via pyromancy, yes)
2. Metamagery (for things that don't fit any skills we know. This is the more difficult way.)
See what happens when we alchemise something (the grass, maybe) using air as the second reagent.
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 14, 2013, 01:55:05 pm
Post by: Eotyrannus on July 14, 2013, 03:14:34 pm
While we're at it, design a robot torso to add to the...robutt.No, we should add an absurdly small bird-like head to it! It would amuse us!
Post by: Aklyon on July 14, 2013, 03:29:07 pm
It's a shame we didn't make the robutt intelligent. Maybe we could do that later with an MMI or something. If we do, I am voting to find that cat we encountered in the alley and use that.Yep, we just have to find out about them first. For now the magery status is not that useful, but it'll keep track of all the kinds we've heard of.Enchantments are based off of one of two things:Ah, something like what I was hoping.... I am assuming all the magics listed won't be the only magics available?
1. The most relevant magic skill (So you could make a welding ring via pyromancy, yes)
2. Metamagery (for things that don't fit any skills we know. This is the more difficult way.)
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Post by: Furtuka on July 14, 2013, 04:49:36 pm
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Post by: Carnwennan on July 15, 2013, 02:09:05 pm
Make a controller for the new frog/robutt death machine;
Go to the inn with your pimped out robutt and find some hapless citizen that needs some questing done;
Alternatively, travel to the nearby haunted house/ spooky cave/ enchanted forest etc etc.
Post by: Twi on July 15, 2013, 02:23:34 pm
Post by: Parsely on July 15, 2013, 03:51:01 pm
Post by: Furtuka on July 15, 2013, 03:51:50 pm
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 15, 2013, 04:05:09 pm
Send Robutt to rampage through the Mason's guild-1
Post by: Aklyon on July 16, 2013, 12:45:01 pm
Post by: Parsely on July 16, 2013, 08:47:38 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 17, 2013, 05:17:04 pm
...Theres an explosion to the south in the outskirts of town.
Post by: Furtuka on July 17, 2013, 05:18:20 pm
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Post by: Carnwennan on July 19, 2013, 06:46:22 am
Fuse cat and swirly orb.Eh, why not.
Try to figure out what made the fuels disappear
((Could we get current equipment in a seperate tab?))
Post by: Parsely on July 19, 2013, 07:07:47 am
Post by: Aklyon on July 19, 2013, 11:41:53 am
You attempt to pet Tim and he asks you what the hell you're doing with the cat. He also asks if you try to pet everyone you've just met.
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Post by: Parsely on July 19, 2013, 11:49:32 am
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Post by: Aklyon on July 19, 2013, 12:30:20 pm
The elementals are still charging towards the cat.
Post by: Furtuka on July 19, 2013, 12:31:47 pm
Post by: Parsely on July 19, 2013, 07:42:47 pm
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 19, 2013, 08:35:23 pm
The elementals are still charging towards the cat.How many? What kind?
Post by: Aklyon on July 19, 2013, 09:10:27 pm
1. A squadron of Flame elementals
2. A scattered group of ~4 Air elementals
3. Some sort of murky elemental-like thing. It looks too dirty to be water or earthen.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 19, 2013, 09:12:38 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 19, 2013, 09:20:11 pm
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You throw one of the remote control frogs out towards a separate direction. It hits a stray arcing flare and disintegrates to no effect. Dismayed, you debate whether or not to take the cat or ignore things and befriend Tim in someway.
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 19, 2013, 09:36:32 pm
Post by: Carnwennan on July 20, 2013, 03:33:35 am
Grab the cat and head back to the academy at maximum speed.Hey, at the academy maybe we could get some help from the teachers. +1
Make our escape in such a way as to put Tim between us and the elementals
I get the feeling we have managed to make a Void cat or something, since the elementals hate it.
Post by: Aklyon on July 20, 2013, 08:55:53 am
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 20, 2013, 09:29:36 am
Grab the cat again and take it into the Academy, to something... cat-luring. Food, a comfortable place to sleep, whatever.
Post by: Carnwennan on July 20, 2013, 11:01:17 am
The cyborg frogs could make nice toys.
Post by: Eotyrannus on July 20, 2013, 01:58:47 pm
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Post by: Carnwennan on July 23, 2013, 02:14:24 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 23, 2013, 02:49:57 pm
Post by: Eotyrannus on July 23, 2013, 02:58:48 pm
Theres mostly plains in all directions, except for to the east, which is the Ridiculous Mountains.
the Ridiculous Mountains.
THIS SOUNDS BRILLIANT LET'S GO THERE
Post by: Carnwennan on July 23, 2013, 03:25:27 pm
... the Ridiculous Mountains.Hopefully so named due to the pitiful threat it poses to the common, level one adventurer!
Practice our pyromancy (on wildlife) during the journey. As in; figure out how far away we can hit them from, to what degree we can control the temperature of the flame. Anything else? I can't think of any.
Post by: Twi on July 23, 2013, 03:53:35 pm
Also practice mechanicing on random broken things first.
Post by: Aklyon on July 24, 2013, 11:54:36 am
"Haak! 75 adventurers failed today! What be youak!"
The sign on it does indeed appear to have 75 tallies on it. This is either a rather distressing prospect or an amusing one, considering how close you are to a city and how much of the news on slow days revolves entirely around adventurers. You could probably hit the bird from here with a fireball.
Post by: Furtuka on July 24, 2013, 09:51:58 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 25, 2013, 09:22:06 am
Nearby things: a sign (rather illegible), a phoenix, a rabbit, a forest of trees, a path.
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 25, 2013, 12:32:25 pm
Post by: Furtuka on July 25, 2013, 12:33:45 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 25, 2013, 12:54:16 pm
After awhile, you've not caught the rabbit. But you did manage to grab it with one of the cyborg frogs while sitting atop the Robutt, so you throw it at the pheonix. The pheonix ignores that and sets you on fire instead, which also makes the bucket smoldering and the alchemical bag a darker shade of brown. The robutt is not particularly affected by your sitting on it while on fire.
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on July 25, 2013, 12:55:30 pm
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Post by: Aklyon on July 25, 2013, 01:08:58 pm
Meanwhile, theres an adventurer walking towards you. He has a sword, a hunk of wood nailed to a flimsy cloth hat on his head, and an absurd pink glass flask holding something that is probably not meant to be colored red in his left hand. Theres also a dozen more (half-sized) ones strewn about his belt and a sack that either is full of rocks or gold, you're too far away to hear the probable clinking.
Post by: Furtuka on July 25, 2013, 01:13:33 pm
Post by: Eotyrannus on July 25, 2013, 02:07:29 pm
Offer to give him some cyborg frogs in exchange for capturing the pheonix and giving it to usAdventurers are always that gullible. +1
Post by: Aklyon on July 25, 2013, 03:18:13 pm
...Unfortunately, he seems rather inept at this sort of thing. So inept infact, that the phoenix was looking away from him and he still failed (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_3-J4uK2q8) to sneak up on it. But at least you were able to retrieve his sword with one of the frogs.
You see that bird come back and add another notch on the board before flying off again.
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Post by: Furtuka on July 25, 2013, 03:32:04 pm
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 25, 2013, 05:31:30 pm
Use magic to steal the Pheonix+1's fire.
Post by: Eotyrannus on July 26, 2013, 04:11:58 am
+1Use magic to steal+1the Pheonix's fire.EVERYTHING
Post by: Aklyon on July 27, 2013, 08:04:10 am
Another adventurer is nearby, this one fairly armored.
Post by: Parsely on July 27, 2013, 08:17:45 am
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 27, 2013, 09:11:11 am
Post by: Aklyon on July 28, 2013, 10:44:44 am
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 28, 2013, 07:35:21 pm
Specifically, "Molten."
Post by: Aklyon on July 28, 2013, 07:49:10 pm
Post by: Harbingerjm on July 28, 2013, 08:01:14 pm
Post by: Aklyon on July 29, 2013, 07:03:05 pm
One does not simply punch a wizard, after all.
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Post by: GreatWyrmGold on December 08, 2013, 05:41:33 pm
Post by: Twi on December 08, 2013, 05:48:58 pm
Also, let us make a mechanical hand-warmer to warm our hands so we can punch people better.
Post by: Aklyon on December 08, 2013, 05:50:07 pm
Location: Phoenix Nests in the Ridiculous Mountains. (These are to the east of the academy we started at).
Name: Petra Arcane
Appearance: A tall woman who could easily be mistaken for a man.
Other: An aggressive female wizard who was magically checked to make sure she was actually a girl. Needless to say, this didn't help matters. She has an excellent tactical mind and is quite accurate with ranged weapons.
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There is an indecisive in the matter of moving, enchanted, armored adventurer, a phoenix which is missing its fire, and an active Fire-breathing Robutt nearby.
Post by: Twi on December 08, 2013, 06:06:32 pm
Alchemize wood and metal!
Post by: Aklyon on December 08, 2013, 06:32:32 pm
Post by: Twi on December 08, 2013, 06:44:40 pm
Post by: Aklyon on December 08, 2013, 10:53:09 pm
Its as good as anywhere else in these mountains to stop, so you give the Robutt a break and alchemize some wood and metal together. The attempt goes rather poorly, but the metal has taken on the color of the wood and the wood now looks like the metal.
Post by: Twi on December 08, 2013, 11:01:00 pm
Also try alchemy again.
Post by: Aklyon on December 09, 2013, 11:56:21 am
Trying the alchemy again, the two materials explode into sparks and shards respectively.
Post by: Twi on December 09, 2013, 11:59:50 am
Go look for interesting things. :P
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 09, 2013, 12:00:26 pm
Post by: Twi on December 09, 2013, 12:09:03 pm
Alchemize the fireless phoenix with a piece of gold.I would totally be for this because lolz, but we're probably not sufficiently competent at alchemy to do it. :P
Post by: Carnwennan on December 09, 2013, 02:38:22 pm
Do it using cyromancy because mage.
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 09, 2013, 03:00:34 pm
Maybe we should extinguish the fire?We don't and never will have cryomancey (Well technically we could but it would weaken our pyromancey.)
Do it using cyromancy because mage.
Post by: Aklyon on December 09, 2013, 03:05:29 pm
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You return southwards towards the phoenix, and find that its relighted itself. You also see a pile of melted metal fragments and ashes near it. So with some effort, you steal its fire again, and then swirl the fire around for a moment while you get out a coin. With the coin flipped into the air you attempt to stick the fire inside the coin, which causes an explosion. A few minutes later the coin pounds into your head from above, and after a quick inspection, appears to have been turned into a heavy metal of some kind; the roundness has been completely ruined and replaced by a jagged oval shape. You put it in your pocket.
The pheonix is not amused by any of this.
Post by: Twi on December 09, 2013, 03:38:01 pm
To the somewheres!
Post by: Aklyon on December 09, 2013, 03:45:42 pm
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Post by: Twi on December 09, 2013, 04:36:30 pm
Post by: adwarf on December 09, 2013, 09:34:15 pm
Make the Robutt into a not-robutt. Preferably a robo-salamander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander_(legendary_creature)).+1 Also use the Flurble to create a focus for channeling pyromancy through.
Post by: GreatWyrmGold on December 09, 2013, 10:39:14 pm
Make the Robutt into a not-robutt. Preferably a robo-salamander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander_(legendary_creature)).+1
Post by: Aklyon on December 09, 2013, 10:55:31 pm
You pull out some of the forge heat and pour it into the empty flask, and wait a moment after sealing it. It condenses into a tiny flame, which you then place into the forge still sealed with one of the tools nearby. The forge roars for a moment, drawing the attention of the owner.
"What are you doing to my forge, you lunatic! It can't handle fire of that magnitude!" he shouts. While he may have a point (the snow outside is rapidly disappearing in an expanding circle as the heat rises), If it works you won't need the forge afterwards anyway. The second part is a pyroagent, which after some heated debate, are apparently in the nearby closet as emergency firestarters. You chuck one into the forge, and it roars again, causing more consternation in the owner. Next is the right temperature. You consider using the at this point almost-enraged forge owner, but looking for materials would take too much time otherwise, so you enter into more fiery arguments with him for things to boost the temperature further with. After a very, very brief fistfight ending in him being literally burned from the phoenix fire you never put out, he points out where the ingredients are, and since you were reminded of it, you also (with some effort) manage to remove the fire from yourself without dousing it, and into the forge it goes. You do remember carefully placing the flurble on top of the sealed flame, but after that its mostly a haze of academic memories and flames, but when the forge crumbles, atop the remains of a half-disintegrated flask sits an exceptional Flurbine Pyrocitor, back in its original circular shape. You pick it up, and then nearly collapse from the effort catching up with you.
So instead, you sit there and stare at the remains of the burning, ruined forge while the owner slowly limps out to complain of property damage and mageburns. The Robutt is rather damaged by the heat, but nothing unrepairable. Examining your bags, you see the effects of forgetting to properly fireproof your alchemical bag, and your formerly water-filled bucket is on fire.
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This is an exceptional flurbine pyrocitor. It menaces with waves of heat and flame. On it is an engraving in glass of flames. The flames are laughing. The craftsmageship is excellent and provides a significant boost to pyromancy, but a significant dampening to any cryomancy within several feet of the wielder, enough to cancel out weak mass-aoe type effects or lesser direct cryomantic attacks.
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Post by: hops on December 09, 2013, 11:02:28 pm
Post by: Twi on December 09, 2013, 11:03:37 pm
Also put the fires out.
Post by: adwarf on December 09, 2013, 11:06:06 pm
Give the Mechastaff a Pyrociter socket, so it can be a welding staff.+1 Also use what remains of the forge to finish the mechastaff if possible.
Also put the fires out.
Post by: Aklyon on December 09, 2013, 11:15:17 pm
Also, the fires in general or just your belongings?
Post by: Twi on December 09, 2013, 11:16:29 pm
Also, belongings.
Post by: Aklyon on December 09, 2013, 11:21:58 pm
Post by: Twi on December 09, 2013, 11:24:32 pm
Well then, find ye olde scrapyard to get ye olde metal.Probably best to ask someone else. I doubt he's in the mood to be very helpful. :P
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 10, 2013, 11:37:44 am
+1Well then, find ye olde scrapyard to get ye olde metal.Probably best to ask someone else. I doubt he's in the mood to be very helpful. :P
Post by: adwarf on December 10, 2013, 03:25:40 pm
+1+1Well then, find ye olde scrapyard to get ye olde metal.Probably best to ask someone else. I doubt he's in the mood to be very helpful. :P
Post by: Aklyon on December 10, 2013, 03:54:00 pm
Eventually, you do indeed find a junkyard in that direction. You pulse the pyrocitor in the general direction of the junk and nothing happens, so its not likely theres a cryomancer around here despite the snow being here and not at the academy. A guy walks over from a shack and asks if the hulk you've been hauling along on a platform is for sale or for junking, or if you aren't getting rid of it.
Post by: Twi on December 10, 2013, 03:55:58 pm
Make the Robutt into a not-robutt. Preferably a robo-salamander (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salamander_(legendary_creature)).
Post by: Aklyon on December 10, 2013, 03:57:09 pm
Post by: Twi on December 10, 2013, 03:58:27 pm
But also, building.
Post by: Aklyon on December 12, 2013, 01:15:12 pm
But first before there is any melting, you remove everything unnessesary from the Robutt, including the butt. The parts are used to make a makeshift frame for what looks vaguely lizard-like, and then you begin to pile up metals inside the boxes and melt them. A few explode from too much heat at once, but not enough to cause major trouble. While it was all melting, you have an idea, and start tearing out various gadgetry from the Robo Frame, rewiring it, heat-proofing it just in case it works. Next, you manage to keep the molten metal from falling on the ground as it comes out onto the frame and its newly reconfigured workings. Eventually you run out of melted scrap, but the Flare Beast is completed. Now it just needs to cool off before testing the new system which, if it works, should be much more useful than the flamethrower the Robutt had, though it needs the focus connected to work.
You feel rather cold as the last of the Overheat levels wear off from earlier and the fact that you've been hauling around snow-clad metals sets in. The junkyard guy shouts impressed things at you from his shack, and hurls a lantern in your general direction.
The sun has set.
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Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 12, 2013, 01:46:25 pm
Post by: Aklyon on December 12, 2013, 01:49:25 pm
Welp, time to go home. Tomorrow we will attend a Alchemy lecture and reach novice level.Or you could go find someone to teach you instead, if you want to go exploring.
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 12, 2013, 01:59:34 pm
Post by: Twi on December 12, 2013, 06:55:10 pm
This, also take the darn lantern.Welp, time to go home. Tomorrow we will attend a Alchemy lecture and reach novice level.Or you could go find someone to teach you instead, if you want to go exploring.
Post by: Aklyon on December 15, 2013, 10:53:47 pm
You pick up the lantern, light whatever is inside it, and walk back over to the new Flare Beast and climb in. You attach the pyrocitor, and with a bit of encouragement, the device realigns slightly and bursts forth with a fireball, which melts a fairly distant pile of metal into slag. You take the pyrocitor back out and attach it to yourself again, and leave town to the north.
Dex is a town of many books. Most of them are silly, redundant, or or in some other way bookish, but some of them arcane and some of them explosive. The known explosive ones are locked in the town vault, to prevent thievery or property damage. Mostly the latter. The library is somewhat bigger than the town hall, but otherwise it has mostly the same sort of buildings as before, inns and shops of somekind. The guards are rather alarmed about a giant metal non-book contraption wandering nearby.
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 16, 2013, 10:12:39 am
Post by: Twi on December 21, 2013, 10:50:46 pm
To the Library!
Post by: Aklyon on December 21, 2013, 10:55:59 pm
Post by: ~Neri on December 22, 2013, 02:02:06 am
Post by: Aklyon on December 26, 2013, 07:25:09 pm
Near you and the door is a sign. It reads 'Librarians are not responsible for any injuries of the light, medium, grievous, or lethal kinds sustained by such foolish acts like trying to pull a book out of the ceiling directly above you or book-based pillow fights, nor is it responsible for the Gnawing Bookish Thing. A wizard did that and it is contained by the threat of deadly crushing force upon it on display nearby, both in the literal sense the guards pose and the ruinous state the corner behind has acquired. Complaining about an injury not serious enough to count as any of the above will get you laughed at.' Other than that, it reminds you of the academy library, but without the cramped space between bookcases and loud shenanigans going on outside it.
Post by: Twi on December 26, 2013, 08:42:45 pm
STUDY
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 27, 2013, 10:41:31 am
Booooks.Study Now!
STUDY
Post by: Aklyon on December 27, 2013, 10:54:55 am
Post by: Twi on December 27, 2013, 10:56:27 am
Study the art of bookcontraptions!
Post by: Aklyon on December 27, 2013, 11:24:25 am
Post by: Twi on December 27, 2013, 06:22:04 pm
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 27, 2013, 06:25:31 pm
Post by: Aklyon on December 31, 2013, 12:09:51 am
After some days, you've arrived at the conclusion that the library is enchanted with either illusion spells or theoretical physics, and possibly the librarians as well. Because there is far too many books here for your understanding of general engineering principles to allow the place not to collapse under its own weight. Regardless, you find many books relevant to your interests, none of which they'll allow someone who is a noncitizen of Dex to take out of the building without a superb reason.
Among them, Artes and Craftse of Bookineering (a manual on how to climb enchanted hill-sized bookcases without ruining the books or the sorting system),
Fire: The Exothermist's Guide (a rant on the supposedly unscholarly art of pyromancy compared to the laws of thermodynamics from another world which has an editor's note taped to the inside cover to beware the "scientist"'s madness, as he is known to cause explosions if left unattented near reagents),
Psi-Crystals, a Microthurgist's Manual (Theoretical forms of alternate cryswarm construction based on Psionics and Microthurgy, a rather unstable form of size manipulation),
Alpha Photonica (A doorsmasher of a book about photon manipulation and the theoretical sphere surrounding it),
Zonic Zenic (a book in an unknown language from the section dedicated to wave-based spheres of magic, known or theoretical),
Boom!, the --- al-he-ist's guie to q ckly dyi- (Presumably the original title finished its words properly, but the book is heavily burnt, slightly melted, and in general in very fitting condition considering its content. The back cover has been entirely replaced by an enchanted metal plate, which significantly weighs the book down),
An orange book with no title, no words, but with pages that change color daily and a warning taped to the cover to not obsess over keeping it or you shall be forcibly separated from it,
Thy Thundersploder (On the theoretical art of controlling thunder to cause explosions instead of the more conventional Aeronautist's act of striking things with lightning or the Pyromancer's outright exploding things to explode things way.),
Bob's Botanical Bombardment (On the unusual but not technically theoretical sphere of plant-based magic which includes elven druidics, though not in this particular book),
Technologic (A blunt and obsolete book now that the two schools are merged, but might be interesting for historical or fine details on the non-mechamancy side of things),
Metamagery, or the Doomsayer's self-constructing arsenal (a hysterical 100-page tirade against metamagic that would not be out of place in the more political of towns, but someone who goes on for a hundred pages probably isn't entirely stupid on the subject)
Lastly, there is Poof!, a book on various ways to stylishly (or fancily, or niftily, or otherwise noteworthily exit an area via magic). All of these books are sitting upon a table in the library; you are sitting at the table pondering which to look at first.
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 31, 2013, 09:28:22 am
Post by: Aklyon on December 31, 2013, 09:38:22 am
For books unrelated to magic, you can borrow 5 at once.
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 31, 2013, 10:03:32 am
We can borrow one. To borrow more than one you have to be from Dex, or otherwise work a citizenship card into your hands somehow. They're very protective about their collection of magic-related books.In that case just Alpha Photonica.
For books unrelated to magic, you can borrow 5 at once.
Post by: Aklyon on December 31, 2013, 11:40:36 am
Post by: The Froggy Ninja on December 31, 2013, 12:22:49 pm